I submit prayer requests to the Kotel (Western Wall) through
Virtual Jerusalem's e-mail. I suppose there are hundreds of thousands
of people bringing requests to the Wall every year. What happens
to the requests that do not stay tucked into the Wall? If they
fall onto the ground, are they swept up and disposed of in a religious
ceremony? I don't imagine that all the requests would stay put
for an indefinite period of time.

Dear Jeffrey J. Samoska,

Officially, the attendants at the Wall are supposed to make sure
that all the papers that fall on the ground are replaced. About
three years ago there was no more room for people to put their
prayers into the cracks and crevices, so the Chief Rabbinate together
with the Jerusalem municipality organized a team of volunteers
to clean out all papers to make room for new prayers to be inserted.
The papers that were removed were buried in accordance with Jewish
Law.